Ep. 149: A life in Indian Politics
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Imposition of Liberalism on India
I believe fundamentally Indian society has been always liberal for a long time. It's the most eclectic civilization in human history. We learn from each other and embrace we all know about the African nature of our civilization or Judaism 2000 years ago. I think it is part of the Indian ethos, even let you, and embrace as much as possible and create another God and then pay homage. Even during his lifetime we built temples and worshiped even today there are slow caste chanting mantras about rather cotton. So I believe fundamentally our society is inclusive and liberal with certain huge distortions of caste system,. Many other less than happy practices and account of tradition but that's true with most societies in some form or the
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